LARGEST AUDITED COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER IN QUEENS • LITTLE NECK LEDGER • WHITESTONE TIMES May 23–29, 2014 Your Neighborhood - Your News® FREE ALSO COVERING AUBURNDALE, COLLEGE POINT, DOUGLASTON, GLEN OAKS, FLORAL PARK Sewage runoff pollutes Visit us online Special Flushing Bay for rowers TimesLedger.com pullout 5C723B=5C7C772323 B=B= Page 2 section 8K`d\jC\[^\iJg\Z`XcJ\Zk`feDXp)*$)0#)'(+ Cops arrest two Liu poised to face Avella for Senate in Bayside thefts Ex-comptroller involving child THE ART OF CALCULATIONS BY KELSEY DURHAM urged to run Police arrested two women earlier this week in connection by boro Dems with a series of thefts in which a child was used to help the sus- BY ALEX ROBINSON pects steal from three Bayside stores, including two on the same As the state Democratic day, the NYPD said. Party leadership convened in Police alleged Brooklyn Suffolk County for its convention resident Tisha Strong, 41, and this week, former city Comptrol- Shannie Eastman, 39, of South ler John Liu was on the cusp of Jamaica, were responsible for announcing his candidacy to run two separate thefts from Worthy against state Sen. Tony Avella Continued on Page 63 (D-Bayside), according to party officials. The Queens Democratic Party officially nominated Liu as its candidate Monday morning at a county committee designation meeting, which the former may- oral candidate did not attend. Two women, depicted on surveillance Liu remained mum on video, were arrested in connection Alistair Wright from Divine Wisdom Catholic Academy in Bayside weighs his next move during a chess tournament whether he will formally accept with a string of thefts from Bayside at PS 98 in Doulgaston. See more photos on Page 52. 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Company will take 14 ft. off structure in Little Neck due to complaints to NE Qns: Vallone TIMESLEDGER BY KELSEY DURHAM ability, lack of transporta- BY KELSEY DURHAM tion alternatives provided City Councilman Paul to northeast Queens and After receiving doz- Vallone (D-Bayside) is one the availability of exist- ens of complaints from of three representatives in ing docks at the proposed residents and civic associa- Queens asking the city to sites,” the letter said. 23–29, 2014 2014 23–29, AY tions, the E. Gluck Corp. an- consider expanding ferry The letter, officially , M nounced this week it would service to two locations in sent from Vallone’s office, be making changes to a the northeast part of the refers to a 2013 Citywide EDGER L 36-foot-tall gray wall the borough. Ferry Study completed by IMES T company put up last month Vallone wrote a joint the EDC, which mentioned at the site of its new ware- letter with his Council col- Citi Field as a potential stop house in Little Neck. leagues Julissa Ferreras along a ferry route because The wall was erected (D-East Elmhurst) and of its vicinity to Flushing in April by the site’s devel- Peter Koo (D-Flushing) ad- Meadows Corona Park and oper, Steel Tribune LLC, af- dressed to Hannah Henn, the World’s Fair Marina. ter construction began on director of ferry service The letter also states the property, at 60-15 Little for the city, asking the city that ferry service to Citi Neck Parkway as the watch- Economic Development Field and Fort Totten making company prepared Corp. to conduct a pilot pro- would help alleviate some to relocate from Long Is- gram that would test out of the overcrowding on the land City to the warehouse the long-term viability of No. 7 train, the only line to in northeast Queens that offering permanent ferry run from Manhattan to the was formerly occupied by service from Manhattan to northeastern part of the the Leviton manufacturing Citi Field in Flushing and borough. company. The E. Gluck Corp. has agreed to lower the 36-foot wall on its new warehouse property that has an- to Fort Totten in Bayside. Under the plan pro- After several weeks gered nearby residents. Photo by Kelsey Durham The letter cites a vari- posed by the Council mem- of pressure from state and ety of factors the Council bers, ferry service would be local representatives, E. has stood at the edge of the the construction site, said ments expressing gratitude members say support the offered from the East River Gluck has agreed to lower property line, nearby hom- at an April 22 rally in pro- that the company had mod- idea of instituting a new to the two sites in Queens the wall, which faces 262nd eowners have complained test against the wall. ified its plans, and both leg- route from Manhattan to separately, but no service Street, by 14 feet and will that the massive, solid gray The 14-foot reduction, islators said they hope E. both locations. was requested between Citi also add nearly 100 trees structure has detracted which will bring the wall’s Gluck considers the needs “We believe a combi- Field and Fort Totten. and plants to soften the from the beauty of their height down to 22 feet, will and concerns of residents nation of factors will lead The letter was sent look of the warehouse’s ex- neighborhood, with some decrease the surface area surrounding the property to an overwhelming suc- from Vallone’s office May terior. residents even saying it re- of the structure by nearly as construction continues. cess of the proposed sites: 20 and the Council mem- “The removal of 14 minded them of the walls 40 percent to reduce the im- “I am cautiously opti- the demand from local bers said they would await feet from the wall should surrounding a prison. pact. mistic about the promises communities, economic vi- a response from the city. allow more light to come Homeowners also In addition, to modify- made by E. Gluck and Steel through, reduce the shad- were aggravated that the ing the height of the wall, Tribune LLC to signifi- ow and mitigate the nega- wall, which local officials E. Gluck has also agreed cantly reduce the profile of tive impact that the struc- say was not part of the ap- to plant 20 flowering pear the building,” Avella said. ture would have had on the proved plans they were trees and 75 white pine “This is definitely a step neighbors,” said City Coun- shown last year, blocks tele- trees to help the industrial in the right direction and cilman Mark Weprin (D- vision and phone signals structure better blend in I am glad that the owners Oakland Gardens). “I want into their homes. with the residential area responded to the cries of to see the property owners “It’s a horrible eyesore around it. Little Neck residents, who follow through on this com- and there’s an injustice be- State Sen. Tony Avella were astounded, and right- mitment as quickly as pos- ing done to the people who (D-Bayside) and state As- fully so, with the monstros- sible.” live here,” Marcia Kops, semblyman Ed Braunstein ity that was built on-site.” Councilman Paul Vallone has suggested running a ferry service to In the weeks the wall who lives a few blocks from (D-Bayside) released state- Fort Totten through Little Neck Bay. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Bayside Times C/O News Community Newspaper Hold- ings Inc. 41-02 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, N.Y. 11361. 3 Filmmakers close in on fi nishing Pomonok documentary BT T IMES L Movie, which explores life in public housing during 1950s, to be given last touches this summer EDGER , M BY ALEX ROBINSON wanted to demystify that.” dents in Pomonok Houses were AY Katz, who was born in the black at a time when only 9 per- 2014 23–29, In September 2011, Terry housing development in 1954, cent of the borough was black, ac- Katz and Al Stark set off to tell fondly remembered it as a friend- cording to Katz.